scornful - Story 124444 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cheap desk lamp cast a sickly yellow glow on the room. Sarah stared at the offending journal, now meticulously returned to its place on her desk. She’d hidden it beneath her mattress. Liam, her roommate, had moved it, she knew it.

Liam sprawled on his bed, earbuds in, oblivious. The rhythmic thrum of the music seemed to mock her. A wave of ice crashed over her.

She picked up her history textbook, slamming it down hard, the sound echoing in the small room. The urge to scream, to shatter the fragile peace, clawed at her throat. The anger was a hot coal burning in her chest.

Emotion: scornful

Cluster: Anger / Hostility

PC1 (Valence): -0.76 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 2.07

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion scornful. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 scornful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the scornful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the scornful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`l`	0.406
`C`	0.391
`S`	0.276
`I`	0.268
`愤`	0.243

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.396
`unexpectedly`	-0.288
`Suddenly`	-0.260
`soon`	-0.256
`serendip`	-0.256